When the printed adventure differs from the bestiary

[The Human Diversion]

For example, monster in the adventure has X hit points, monster in the Bestiary has Y hit points, what's the authoritative source?

Thanks

[Sebastian Hirsch]

Do you have a specific example ?

[Paz]

Is this just a one-liner that references a standard monster, or a full statblock in the scenario?

Is it a season 0 scenario, or more recent?

[The Human Diversion]

Adventure says, "(4) goblins, 3 hit points"
Bestiary says they have 6

[The Human Diversion]

Matt Lewis wrote:

Is this just a one-liner that references a standard monster, or a full statblock in the scenario?

Is it a season 0 scenario, or more recent?

Season 0 that references a standard monster but says they have X hit points, where the bestiary says they have Y

I've heard in the past that the printed adventure takes precedence, but I wanted to confirm that.

[Pirate Rob]

OP Guide p 34 wrote:

Season 0 (Scenarios #1–#28): Season 0 scenarios were written under the 3.5 rules set of the world’s oldest roleplaying game, before the release of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.

Scenarios are to be run with minimal changes by GMs, limited to adding CMB/CMD scores to NPCs and monsters and using newly combined skills such as Stealth and Perception instead of Move Silently and Spot. If a creature in the scenario also appears in the Pathfinder RPG Bestiary, Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 2, or Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 3 and maintains the same CR between both rules sets, you may use the Pathfinder RPG stats in place of the 3.5 stats. This is the only substitution allowed in these scenarios.

[The Human Diversion]

Gotcha, thanks.

The adventure has the particular monsters completely fleshed out (minus CMB/CMD of course) early in the adventure, and then references those same monsters to be used later. I played recently at a table where the GM used the adventure statblock for the first encounter, and then used the bestiary statblock (significantly harder despite same CR) for the final encounter and it ended in a TPK.

spoiler:

Talking about Murder on the Silken Caravan

[Sebastian Hirsch]

I thought as much, of course mistakes can sneak into stat blocks in other ways ^^

[BigNorseWolf]

Close enough for state work. Just use whatever.

[The Human Diversion]

BigNorseWolf wrote:

Close enough for state work. Just use whatever.

Having worked for government on both state and federal levels, that's totally amusing to me, but I was just trying to validate my frustration and disappointed feelings from the TPK.